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Home Town Dos Palos
Last Address Fresno, CA
Date of Passing Jul 20, 2015
Location of Interment Dos Palos Cemetery - Dos Palos, California
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Frank passed away peacefully on Monday, July 20, 2015. He was 90 years old. He lived a long happy life filled with family and friends. He was born in Lincoln, MO on October 7, 1924, to Ernest and Florence Shaeffer. The family moved to Dos Palos, CA in 1935. He was the eldest of eleven children. Frank served in the United States Navy as an Aircraft Ordnanceman, from January of 1942, to December of 1945. He worked as a PCA Advisor for Spain- Air in Dos Palos, and later became a Real Estate Agent and moved to Fresno, CA. Frank was preceded in death by his parents, Ernest and Florence Shaeffer; sister, Edna Mae Brown; brother, Erwin Shaeffer; and brother, Doug Shaeffer. He is survived by his wife, Eva Shaeffer, of Fresno; son, Rick Shaeffer of Fresno; step-daughter, Bobbie Miras of Twain Harte, CA; grandson, Chris Shaeffer of Selma, CA; great-granddaughter's, Alexandra, Elizabeth and Savannah, of Selma, CA; great-great granddaughter, Autumn Shaeffer, of Selma, CA; brothers, Lawrence of Dos Palos, CA, Ed of Los Banos, CA, Earl of Fresno, Eldon of Dos Palos, CA, and Elmer of Fresno; and his sisters, Hazel Hamerick of Leesburg, FL, and Edith Robertson of Tranquility, CA. He also leaves behind many nieces; nephews; and lots of other extended family members and friends. A Viewing will be held at the Fierro Family Funeral Home, Dos Palos, CA, on Monday, July 27, 2015, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Interment will be held at the Dos Palos Cemetery on Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. with a Graveside Service. A reception will immediately follow at the Dale Hale Hall in Dos Palos.
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
